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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2021.19.10.021

Examining the Factors Affecting the Correctional Officer's Preference toward the Institute for Forensic Psychiatry  

Hong, Moon-Ki (The Korean Institute of Criminology and Justice)
Park, Jongsun (Department of Public Administration, Gachon University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.19, no.10, 2021 , pp. 21-28 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study examines factors affecting correction officer's preference toward institute for forensic psychiatric. The data were collected from the correction officers who worked at the six correctional facilities in 2019. Binary logistic regression was used to find the factors on the officer's preference. The result showed that the correction officers had their own preference toward prison for forensic psychiatric, and the preference was positively related to the age of the officer, work experience at the mental health center, mentally-ill prisoner's fighting as the rule-violation in prison, refusal of medical treatment, and lack of laws and regulations for the mentally-ill prisoners. In contrast, there was a negative relationship between the officer's rank and the preference for forensic psychiatric. More work needs to be done in the future research to collect more samples and include a broader ranger of variables than now.
Keywords
Mentally-disordered Inmates; Medical Treatment and Custody; Correctional Treatment; Rule-violation Behaviors; Forensic Psychiatry;
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